Re: [PECL-DEV] Endianness in PHP

On 12 Aug 2010, at 12:48, Johannes Schlüter wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 11:42 +0100, Melanie Rhianna Lewis wrote:
>> You can easily detect endianness as follows:
>> 
>> Either:
> [...]
> 
> Please don't reinvent the wheel. As said in my other mail we have a
> compile time constant for this already.

Sorry I missed that.

However that's a compile time constant.  Mine are run time.

> And yes, for all circumstances a compile time value isn't enough.
> Thinking about cross-compiling and MacOS's binaries which support
> PowerPC and Intel architectures but using the provided constants gives a
> consistent behavior.

But are there mapping macros to aid endian translation?  If not it would be nice if there were to save each extension that needs it re-inventing the wheel.

Melanie